4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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A superficial reward signal, such as whether a user accepts a code edit, might be reward-hacked.

John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026

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“And if you use some kind of superficial signal, like did they accept the code,”
“the edit,”
“that might get reward hacked in some way.”
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